The Tenants - Couverture souple

Malamud Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140035087 ISBN 13 : 9780140035087

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1976

Synopsis

A novel first published by Eyre Methuen and Penguin in 1972, and by Chatto & Windus in 1981, telling of how Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to complete the novel he started ten years earlier, and how he is influenced by a black soul writer. In the VINTAGE CLASSICS series.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Bernard Malamud, one of America's most important novelists and short-story writers, was born in Brooklyn in 1914. He took his B.A. degree at the City College of New York and his M.A. at Colombia University. From 1940 to 1949 he taught in various New York schools, and then joined the staff of Oregon State University, where he stayed until 1961. Thereafter, he taught at Bennington State College, Vermont.

His remarkable, and uncharacteristic first novel, The Natural, appeared in 1952. Malamud received international acclaim with the publication of The Assistant (1957, winner of the Rosenthal Award and the Daroff Memorial Award). His other works include The Magic Barrel (1958, winner of the National Book Award), Idiots First (1963, short stories), The Fixer (1966, winner of a second National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize), Pictures of Fidelman (1969), The Tenants (1971), Rembrandt's Hat (1973, short stories), Dubin's Lives (1979) and God's Grace (1982). Bernard Malamud was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, USA, in 1964, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1967, and won a major Italian award, the Premio Mondello, in 1985. Benard Malamud died in 1986.

Quatrième de couverture

'Wise, funny and fluent' Paul Theroux

The last remaining tenant in a condemned New York tenement, Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to complete the novel he started ten years earlier. Then he stumbles on a black man, sitting typing in one of the deserted flats: Willie Spearmint, soul writer. Touchy, hostile and anti-semitic, demanding then denouncing Lesser's critical help with his floridly violent tales of oppression, Spearmint is exactly what Lesser doesn't need - or does he?

See also: The Natural

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0140035087
• ISBN 13: 9780140035087
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible